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Women

NEW YORK: When the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards get underway Sunday night, who takes home statuettes is only a small part of the intrigue.
What the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Beverly Hills, California, ceremony lacks in gravitas it usually makes up for in freewheeling frivolit...

Fashion

NAIROBI, KENYA: A groundbreaking beauty pageant for people with albinism has encouraged confidence and inclusion for people who remain the target of sometimes deadly stigma in Africa.
The first Mr. and Miss Albinism East Africa pageant on Friday night in Kenya’s capital saw participants fro...

Nepal

Dhading, January 20
A bandh called by locals threw life out of gear in Nuwakot. People affected by the Galchhi-Trishuli-Mailung-Safrubesi-Rasuwagadi road upgradation project in the district today called a bandh demanding compensation for the land acquired for the project.
Locals were furio...

Oddities

LAKIYA: On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife.
She hasn’t seen him since he moved down the road in their dusty Bedouin town and started a new family, with seven more children.
“I can’t ...

News Archives

CANBERRA: An Australian state government on Tuesday announced plans to mechanically pump oxygen into lakes and rivers after hundreds of thousands of fish have died in heatwave conditions.
Up to a million dead fish were found floating last week in the Darling River in western New South Wales s...

Environment

BELGRADE: Heavy snow paralyzed much of Europe for yet another day, cutting off mountain villages, sparking avalanches like one that crashed into a Swiss hotel and killing at least four more people Friday.
Workers at the Hotel Saentis in eastern Switzerland spent Friday shoveling out hip-deep sno...